Ridiculous. Baseless. Dilatory. Wasteful. Disingenuous.

Those were just a few of the choice words U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth recently had for District of Columbia government lawyers. They had violated a discovery order, he said in an Oct. 4 opinion, and in trying to defend their actions, they were asking him to enter an “Orwellian world” where “all arguments are devoid of context.”